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Osama bin Laden the man who ordered the attack on America 9/11 the trauma of New York for ten years the USA hunts down its public enemy number one and finds him where no one suspects him he is killed in the bottle bot Pakistan on may 2nd 2011 private papers fall into the Americans hands during the operation some of them are published later online they are for a glimpse into a sama bin Laden's life in his hideout how he felt in what he thought how he loved and hated it Osama bin Laden up close and personal [Music] [Music] a bot about Pakistan a city of 500,000 at the foot of the Himalayas a bot about benefits from a mountain climate and cool summers June marks the beginning of the season affluent Pakistanis from the hot southern regions enjoy the summertime freshness here a no bata bar is safe after all the Pakistani Army's military academy is based here good private and boarding schools equally thrive in this kind of environment [Music] by Pakistani standards a pleasantly calm atmosphere pervades the city the district of Bilal Town is not the most upscale neighborhood despite that larger solitary compounds dot the area in an otherwise rural environment none of the residents suspect that one of these compounds houses a man who was wanted all around the world Osama bin Laden he once spread fear and terror into the Western world in his house in Abbottabad a TV links him to the outside world occasionally in newscasts he sees himself the man who many regard as the world's most dangerous terrorist for the Americans looking for him he is vanished into thin air in his hideout he views the videotapes displaying in his opinion his greatest triumph again and again September 11th 2001 the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York which killed almost 3,000 people roughly ten years later bin Laden wants to publicly savor his terrible triumph one more time in his compound he writes to a confidante we are awaiting the tenth anniversary of the Blessed attack on New York and Washington you are well aware of the importance of taking advantage of the anniversary in the media we have a lot to show if al Jazeera shows responsiveness we should tell them that we are willing to cooperate tell them that we suggest that they make a documentary on this anniversary and we will provide them with printed audio and video material we should also look for an American channel that can be close to being unbiased [Music] original quotes from bin Laden himself according to the US government it has posted 103 documents on a website materials seized in Abbottabad in 2011 mostly on hard drives though bin Laden is very outspoken in these documents still they don't reveal how he came across face to face British journalist Peter Bergen experienced this firsthand [Music] I met Devon in 1997 in eastern Afghanistan it was his first television interview you know he came across as serious well-informed very low-key you know he was not sort of I didn't know what to expect I thought he was he gonna be thumping the table and shouting he wasn't he was very even on September 11th 2001 Osama bin Laden humiliates the global power USA that same day he is in a cave in Afghanistan sitting among his followers he keeps count as the hijack planes hurtle into their targets one after the other [Music] this is the day when he becomes the most well known terrorist in the world and the most wanted it wasn't something handed down to him Osama bin Laden was born in 1957 in Saudi Arabia a country marked by old traditions and rapid change oil makes the desert nation rich but big money brings the modern era with it consumption and decadence start to compete with the Bedouins simple life for some urban Loudon is not among the losers in this change he's one of 54 children sired by Mohammed bin Laden a developer who became extremely wealthy as a result of Saudi Arabia's construction boom a widely branched family the bin Laden's gain ever greater prestige and influence it was really quite a an organized clan and under Islamic inheritance law Osama would have known as a recognised son of Mohammed bin Laden that he would that he would have a significant fortune after his father died like many Saudis of his generation young Osama loves some of the novelties the cars are his passion [Music] he enjoys playing soccer too in jeddah he attends one of the most modern elite schools in the country Osama's gym teacher at the AL tagger modeled school comes from Syria where he was a member of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood now he lives in exile in Saudi Arabia the teacher deliberately tries to influence young bin Laden's political views so Osama had this very distinctive experience in elite an elite educational setting influenced by European curricula but also educated by Syrian Muslim Brotherhood activists who saw Islam as a source of political change not just personal faith and practice Osama bin Laden's studies economics and Business Administration at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah but he is drowned lectures held by Islamic scholars one of them Abdullah Yousuf Azam Spurs the faithful on to wage jihad holy war Muslim soil must be defended against the hegemony of the infidels the armed struggle to accomplish this ought to be fought throughout the Islamic world Afghanistan here jihadis literally go into combat against hostile invaders soldiers from the socialist Soviet Union have occupied the country firm conviction causes many young Saudis to be drawn into this holy war yet a thirst for adventurers their - as of 1984 or sama bin Laden is one of them his presence turns him into a celebrity back home 1990 deployment of US troops in Saudi Arabia their mission to liberate neighboring Kuwait which has been occupied by the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein bin Laden fears that the presence of US troops in his homeland is an affront to the Muslim world the holiest sites in Islam Mecca and Medina lie in Saudi Arabia the Russians withdrawal marks the end of bin Laden's adventure in Afghanistan the militant fundamentalist looks for a new sphere of activity Fatah rings Minister suit on anger Boonton at the time he even made an offer to Defense Minister Sultan to form an army of volunteers to set against the Iraqis when the minister and the King rebuffed this notion Osama bin Laden opted for opposition instead daba caba Osama bin Laden in the opposition on update moment sandhya vegan arc starting then he appears to have thought of our ways to take action against Saudi Arabia and its foreign backers even by force primarily against the United States yes - Stella define a constructor this hatred towards America culminates in the attacks on September 11th 2001 the Americans strike back the hunt for bin Laden is on at first vs CIA squads in Afghanistan but they're unable to catch bin Laden even when US Armed Forces head into the Hindu Kush region in late 2001 the quarry is nowhere to be found for years the Americans presume that bin Laden is hiding in the mountains of Afghanistan or the tribal regions of Pakistan the search firm in Lawton and the decade that took I think at times was a there was a source of an enormous frustration for the intelligence community if not if not almost embarrassment right how could you have all of these resources all of these people devoted to this search and turn up so little there were in terms of the public investment in this it waned at times right there were other things that were happening there was the invasion in Iraq and that ugly aftermath of the war in Iraq the unraveling of that war I mean that diverted not only resources from the search for bin Laden but diverted the public's attention from the search for bin Laden yet since 2005 bin Laden hasn't had to live in mountain villages or caves anymore in 2004 a pakistani middleman by several property lots in a suburb of Abbottabad he spends fifty thousand dollars and applies for a building permit the clients order calls for a domicile with space for about a dozen residence in 2005 construction workers erect a house the neighborhood has been chosen with care a large portion of the population in Bernard town are retired people or semi-retired if you like those who take it up some occupation after a post retirement it's it's not a it's not an active region it's not where people get up at 6:30 in the morning you start doing things it's more like a sleepy place where the day starts at about nine o'clock and those who get up earlier that that are the exception not the rule there's not too much social interaction walls enclosed the house not unusual in a culture that shields women from strangers eyes shall cut kadia knows the situation in Abbottabad the compound is a large one it was very dark compound but most houses in most winners in the downtown have an equal size a compound it's about five canals or land in the local language which comes to about 2500 square yards of land that's not too much either it's a very large compound but for most middle-class families in that region this wouldn't be too large an accommodation it's not all that expensive either from that point in Latin writes letters memos and messages in his hideout he knows he has to be very careful there is no internet in the house no mobile phones either however he is not completely isolated here either if we don't forget me a lot of time on his hands so he would write 46 page memos to his lieutenants and then he would you know put it on a thumb drive and get us through courier the couriers were you know they were perfect for bin Laden because they were also his bodyguards they spoke Arabic because they grew up in Kuwait but they came from this part of Pakistan so they spoke the local language so it was you know they were really were able to present themselves as locals because they kind of work the couriers relay bin Laden's messages most of which are stored on USB thumb drives to intermediaries the neighbors only know the two Pakistani brothers Arshad and Tariq nothing about the compounds high-profile resident Arshad Khan one of his couriers systematically shields bin Laden from their view shared with the tables was that he had an elder uncle staying with him with his wife and children and he was not wealth so that is the excuse of the other useful not mixing with people yeah they were being very very careful about security so if a kid would knock a soccer ball cricket ball over the wall the bodyguards inside the compound wouldn't return the ball wouldn't let the kid in bodyguard would come out and give so many fifty rupees to just go away and you know forget about it they were not letting anybody into the compound bin Laden doesn't live all by himself in the compound he has gathered part of his family here eeeyah VAR e mod alpha song he always advocated that it's good custom for Muslims to have four wives which corresponds to common practice at least among conservative Muslims in Saudi Arabia marrying to three or four women is nothing special if the financial means are there leading spider avi of Han su hija two of his four wives are with him in a bottle bowed to his younger children even born here living in a quasi conspiracy this can become a real challenge has been Laden rights in one of his letters one of the most important security issues in cities is controlling children by not getting out of the house except for extreme necessity like medical care and that they do not get to the yard of the house without an adult who will control the volume of their voices on the compound there were a dozen kids billons kids and then also grandkids [Music] only very few photos of these younger children exist the two educated wives there was sort of a noise like a classroom and they would teach them and then bin Laden would come and sort of instruct them about various things the patriarch visits the classroom almost every day he shows interest in his children's progress bin Laden was very nice to his kids and his family I mean you know people it's it's not unusual that people who conduct acts of mass murder I'll have you know at least one part of them that is sort of nice and bin Laden was Soniya committed father he would read poetry to his kids he would kind of instruct a woman Quran letters written by his grown children who can't be with him speak of affection toward their father we constantly yearned for you and delight in hearing your voice messages rights one of his daughters his son Hamza lets him know my beloved father I could not imagine the length of this bitter separation my eyes still remember that last day they saw you bin Laden's answers equally affectionate by god I miss you so much the only thing we're lacking is getting together with you and yet in comparison the terrorist leader knows how good his fairing in his hideout it must have been a bit boring sometimes because he couldn't leave but you know he was the world's most wanted man and he's living he wasn't on the run you know he was living in this house for five and a half years he had his family now most people when they're on the run don't take you know two or three wives and a dozen kids and grandkids with them right it's quite unusual well he had them all with him the search for bin Laden poses the challenge for us investigators at CIA headquarters in Langley Virginia their work demands a lot of time and even more patience well they always had a dedicated unit of analysts who became essentially target analysts so their responsibility was to collect and synthesize and analyze all of the information about where he might be and to then send out messages to CIA stations around the world asking them to follow up on one clue or another clue it was obvious from 2002 forward that there was some kind of courier network serving bin Laden because his tapes came to al-jazeera and to other outlets by some means there had to be some handing so the CIA was searching for those couriers trying to follow the trail back from when the tapes were dropped and this was an obvious course of investigation and along the way some information started to surface about that important names in this courier network as of 2010 the Americans keep a man under surveillance who once had connections to al-qaeda and apparently provides courier services in Pakistan they don't know who he works for yet al Qaeda's third in command at ayat Allah who warns Osama I previously wrote to you my opinion that we should reduce our correspondence but bin Laden doesn't want to reduce contact any further he writes the facts proved that the American technology and advanced systems cannot capture a Mujahid if he does not make a security violation that will lead them to him imagine trying to control a global organization without using the phone or email I mean that's how bin Laden was but he you know he had some control because he was able to get these messages out on thumb drives through couriers to people but it was you know you know it might he had no idea if the message called through it might take months for a reply to come and it was a very it was like running an organization in like the early 19th century where you would you know send somebody physically with a message it is not without consequences there are sub commanders who questioned bin Laden's Authority one of them writes no doubt that one's distance due to security situation in other reasons from reality can weaken his precise vision being chased besieged and distant is not the best environment for thinking and performing the right opinion and decision after stop to Mendez decode Michelini and even so he at least manages to stipulate rough guidelines for al-qaeda's global activities and it seems he also manages to have a say regarding operational details in individual cases however the fact that he has to communicate exclusively using couriers makes this difficult which is why he naturally can't engage in planning attacks like those in London in 2005 - Baba shines but it seems as if he was at least still able to influence the broad focus of all these attacks and Tata and he appears to have been well informed about current strategy for me at Cadiz and AH who Gavaskar Aden plenaries yet the operational leadership no longer considers bin Laden to be a decisive factor he starts to set other priorities we need to understand that a huge part of the battle is the media he's not pleased at all with how the media is portraying him in the past I watched some programs about me that relied on incorrect information if the person does not disclose his history then the media and the historians will make up some history for him whether right or wrong well he's he's obviously a narcissist in many important ways he sees himself as indispensable to the struggle to his own faith to world history and there's a megalomania in his actions and in his sense of self now he could in person come across as quite retiring and even humble but in his in the choices that he made and in the way he defined himself as a leader he was clearly a narcissist and quite vain as well he keeps intervening in late 2004 fierce fighting breaks out in Fallujah Iraq US troops temporarily lose the city to Iraqi resistance groups among them al-qaeda in Iraq in a letter written in 2004 before his time in Abbottabad bin Laden's Spurs the insurgents on most sincere regards to the free people in the land of Palin bar especially the people in Fallujah a town that is standing strong and refused to be humiliated and subjected by all of the infidel leaders it's off them a lesson in consistence in principle and proved to them that the strength of faith is greater than that of planes and cannon shelling but the leadership of al Qaeda in Iraq is hard to keep in check Amiata fight wasn't Fiats pneumonia in 2004 Abu Musab al-zarqawi a Jordanian who later became the head of al Qaeda in Iraq allied himself with Osama bin Laden he had pledged allegiance to Vin llahi although all the experts knew he didn't have very much in common with al Qaeda Fela Kuti a native of Jordan al Zarqawi his view is extremely vicious and unpredictable they were Luna pinging he wanted to remain independent to fight the battle Israel Janka Maha al-zarqawi is not only fighting against American forces time and again al Qaeda in Iraq carries out attacks on Iraqi Shiites as a result primarily it's Muslims who become the victims of Islam's terror in a letter from 2007 bin Laden cautions against the consequences of these actions I am afraid that if they continue using techniques such as this they will spoil and alienate the people our brothers are making things worse by opening themselves up to evil and hostility there was tension there at the outset in an effort by bin Laden and his and those closest to him to try to exert some influence to sort of check this group in Iraq to yank its leash from time to time and ultimately they couldn't hold on to that leash that leash was was broken a couple years ago in the Islamic state has emerged as an organization with with more resources and seen now as a greater Menace America remains the main adversary for bin Laden no matter where or when in Afghanistan - in a letter to a like-minded comrade he depicts what he considers the best method al Qaeda concentrates on its external big enemy the enemies of their Ummah are a malicious tree with a huge trunk that has many different sizes of branches including the countries of NATO we want to cut this tree at the root our strength is limited so our best way to cut the tree is to concentrate on saw in the trunk of the tree for example if we were on the road between Kandahar and Helmand and army vehicles of Afghan ease NATO and Americans drove by we should choose to ambush the American army vehicles even though the American army vehicles have the least amount of soldiers we will continue to pressure the Americans until there is a balance of terror [Music] yet all this is happening far from Abbottabad where all the allegedly most dangerous man in the world can do is to make a daily tour of the yard he is extremely cautious to avoid being discovered the residents keep to themselves they even burn their trash instead of having it collected bin Laden wants the household to be self-sufficient in every possible way so the bodyguards were bringing goats are they bought locally and they would slaughter them I saw there were areas where they were keeping cows from milk I saw chicken coops where they're keeping chickens for eggs I saw all sorts of vegetables they were growing ice or cucumbers maybe lettuces it was a completely self-sufficient environment they and you know there was a practical side of this which is the more you can keep it you know the more you can grow yourself unless you need to go out buy stuff and they were being security conscious in that sense in Ladin has reason for caution his hideout is within the americans reach since 2009 they've been flying more and more special missions from their bases in Afghanistan night after night a unit is airdrop somewhere to search houses and take out key opponents the Americans deploy another weapon to serve this purpose - drones unmanned remote-controlled aircraft bin Laden is aware of the threat he writes the spying war and spying aircraft benefitted the enemy greatly and led to the killing of many jihadi Carter's leaders and others this is something that is concerning us and exhausting us for the CIA this was a capability that those involved in counterterrorism mission they just saw its potential sooner than their counterparts in the military who regarded this as this odd aircraft what possible use could this be it's you know they didn't see what it could do as quickly or readily as the CIA did and so the CIA basically adopted this adopted this platform adopted this aircraft and developed it and has and has enhanced it in ways that are quite remarkable right I mean there was there was almost a choreography now to the way that they conduct surveillance and I even strikes with drone aircraft in 2009 a drone strike in the Pakistani Afghani border region kills bin Laden's thirty year old son Saad he belonged to the top echelon in al-qaeda and had been tipped as his father's successor Osama bin Laden writes about his son's death may he accept him among the martyrs and elevate his stature and may he have him in the company of the prophets the lovers of truth the martyrs and the righteous people we also pray that God reward us for this loss and grant us a successor he gave his sons mixed messages at times he urged them to follow him into the fight at one point according to a memoir published by one of his sons he even urged his sons to become suicide bombers which is a little bit hard for for us to fathom but there's also writing that he did at times under pressure for example his last will and testament at Tora Bora where he tells his sons get out of the family business I've suffered I've caused enough suffering in your lives he is behind the massive use of drones US President Barack Obama and he's the Americans key military commander General Petraeus both of them become targets of Osama bin Laden's fantasies of revenge and Abbott ins I asked to prepare two groups with the mission of anticipating and spotting the visits of Obama or Petraeus to Afghanistan or Pakistan to target the aircraft of either one of them Obama is the head of infidelity as for Petraeus he is the man of the hour in this last year of the war and killing him would alter the wars past those are the sorts of things you can't rule out but seemed increasingly unlikely seemed increasingly almost as if he you know evidence that bin Laden had lost some grip on the reality of the organization he was running and its capabilities I so it was sort of a pie in the sky idea yet bin Laden views himself as a realist he thinks he knows his enemy and writes one of the most important matters when there is a conflict between two sides each side needs to be informed about its enemies culture history his way of thinking he was our enemy before Islam and he increased his animosity after Islam it is the Western civilization that occupied our land for 1,000 years the Greeks 400 years the Romans 600 years yes I think it was a narrative of a sort of preordained history rooted in certain interpretations of Islamic texts and Islamic forecasts that he had grown up with but really distorted by the kind of campfire conversations among all of these exiled radicals in these conflict environments and they they kind of created their own mythology to explain what they were doing why they mattered and how it would all lead to an important and successful transformational outcome he didn't understand the United States at all I mean and we know now that he visited the United States once when he was a relatively young man he didn't have much first-hand knowledge in the United States some of the people in his family a big family some of them studied in the United States understood it pretty well but he himself I think had a very surface understanding and you know the bin Laden bookshelf that he had at his house I mean it's full of good it's it's full of works by Noam Chomsky and sort of critics of American foreign policy that's all fine but it's only one part of the picture so he didn't I think his view of United States was kind of incomplete and I'm also he was reading as some people do stuff that really simply reinforced his own views the picture bin Laden has of Germany his homespun - he believes he knows the easiest way to hurt it boycotting German automobiles means harm to the automotive sector first and with it other companies will be hurt also such as BASF the largest chemical company in the world and also the steel industry both are important sectors in Germany boycotting the German automotive industry will lead to the loss of jobs advice avoid talking about the Jews and Palestine when talking to Germans this subject is very sensitive in Germany and will bring negative results to our goal however in bin Laden's eyes the main adversary is the USA America has to stop its evil such as the support for the Jews and leave the Muslims alone so the Muslims can establish an Islamic state where Islam will prevail we want to fight the United States the leader of the infidels it is a known fact that the American people who are represented by the Congress and the White House are the holders of the supreme power in the US and they are the ultimate decision makers thus we have to focus on killing and fighting the American people let's end us in a nutshell until 2011 how Qaeda was one of history's most violent terrorist organizations conceived a list their goal was to attack and kill civilians in the US but also in the rest of the Western war on Zika - together bin Laden makes some calculations the population of the u.s. is 300 million 1,000 soldiers were killed in Afghanistan and 4,000 in Iraq this means that only a small number of them were impacted which is not enough to make the American people revolt and force the politicians to stop the war as long as we want to achieve our main objective we have to conduct our operations inside the US one large operation inside the US will affect the security and nerves of 300 million Americans thus our main war should be directed to put pressure on the American people inside the US new forms of terror aren't the only thing bin Laden thinks about his hideout other worries plagued him - as his letters show please send me a complete statement on my fund also please send me thirty thousand dollars from my personal fund if there is not enough money in my personal fund please take money as a loan from the general account youkai Duvall avoids evil Qaeda was strapped for cash very very often even though it was a very wealthy terrorist organization in its time that's why Osama bin Laden was forced to live on a very modest scale for years bin Laden al-sebaa trident leaped hockey but ideology plays a role here too he emulated his Saudi and Khomeini forefathers often so-called Wahhabism the interpretation of Islam prevalent in Saudi Arabia a very austere life plays a key role it's an ideal Salaam interpreted CEO names Organa waha business I know Vista Vista college field as a result bin Laden lives almost as unassumingly as the ordinary people in his neighborhood in a bottle bot they were living in relative discomfort I would say the main house had one sitting room with the kitchen it had two bedroom you need for the ground for the first floor the second floor so there are total of nine bedrooms for 17 people another resident is supposed to join them from Tehran bin Laden's wife Korea has been held in Iran the nation led by shia mullahs for years along with several of their children well an iranian diplomat have been taken hostage by al-qaeda effectively in and they held him i think for a couple of years and the iranians one of this diplomat back and they had something al-qaeda really wanted which was bin Laden's family members who'd been living in Iran under a form of house arrest so a deal was made and it was essentially kind of a prisoner swap bin Laden wants to have Korea join him but his Pakistani backers disapprove as he writes to his wife in late 2010 I have been living in the company of some of the brothers from the area for years and they are getting exhausted security-wise from me staying with them they are shutting down and they asked us all to leave they mentioned that our number is large and beyond what they can handle bin Laden's willing to take a major risk for his wife's sake and even leave the safe house to meet her in secret he asks a trusted aide in a letter with God's permission I will visit her in your opinion what is the suitable time for movement from our area to your area is it after sunrise when movement is weak because of the extreme cold or is it after sunset is it suitable for the brothers to take me to the place where I met with the brother from our side a while ago in the neighboring city the letter suggests that he left the house at least once this is our under static de información it is pretty amazing that uncondition on his papers reveals that he left the compound does his shun it's hard to picture a major figure as striking as Osama bin Laden being able to move around unnoticed in Pakistan in Laden the UN be marked in Pakistan pivoting Kanta Allah dings assistant ape then again it is a chaotic country with only one effective entity the army under sister Yami want - scientist whether in a van or otherwise it seems that Osama bin Laden and parts of his family were successfully brought across Pakistani territory first into the tribal regions and back again again untreated sewage in early 2011 his wife Korea actually joins him in his hideout he advised her beforehand our security situation does not allow us to go to doctors so please take care of all your medical needs and keep the prescriptions from every doctor you go to so we can get you the medication when you come to us God willing whenever you need it we have three wives who very damaged from 63 to 29 and Mao was the youngest one she is the Yemeni and she hit recently she was his most recent pride and he was living in the bedroom with her and then he had these two other wives who were also living in the house and you know yet good relations with him by that time CIA search units are already keeping the compound in Abbottabad under airborne surveillance from the ground as well they even count the pieces of laundry on the clothesline to figure out the number of inhabitants yet they never catch sight of bin Laden himself since early 2011 US President Obama has received regular reports on one of the residents of the house noble turbot who was identified as a member of al-qaeda and apparently works as a courier for an important person one of the things the CIA did was okay what are the alternative explanations for this is this a drug dealer who is just keeping a low profile which is perfectly plausible in that part of the world this is some people Qaeda that is not been well there were alternative explanations but none were as good as potentially has been lost after nearly ten years of fruitless searching finally a hot lead at the White House President Obama decides it's time to act in the spring of 2011 he sends Navy SEALs to Abbottabad whether they're actually going to find bin Laden there is anything but certainly this was not an easy decision this there were doubters in that room who were arguing against against proceeding in this way proceeding with a raid instead of just dropping a bomb or sending a drone the president reportedly also decides not to notify the Pakistani government in advance however some issues regarding Pakistan's rolled still remain I do think there are aspects of the hunt for bin Laden and the communication with the Pakistanis that we may not know everything about in history these kinds of very sensitive secret fugitive hunts they usually reveal a few layers as the years go on and as and as more documents become available today the essential facts are commonly known US Navy SEAL commandos takeoff from the USA on April 26 2011 and arrived in Afghanistan after a stopover in Ramstein Germany as they were not convinced that bin Laden was there they some people thought it was very likely some people thought it was maybe and it was a varied I think look I think President Obama made you know clearly you made the right decision I think he made a very tough call on the evening of May 1st 2011 two commandos set off for Abbottabad from a US base in Jalalabad in Afghanistan their flight leaves around 11:00 p.m. and takes about 90 minutes the Pakistani Air Force doesn't react to it there was no aerial threat from afar from West borders there was no threat my ear I will question by air from a part on the aerial threat will order windier so all our radar and anti-aircraft devices were placed on that board not on this boat what is what the Americans knew which area - totally undefended where there were no people and they would fly through those valleys low flight through those valleys which and the gradient which is what they did that night Osama bin Laden goes to bed as usual on the third floor of the house in the bedroom he shares with his wife Ahmad 1 a.m. US Navy SEALs infiltrate the compound one of the commando units kills bin Laden's two couriers and one of his adult sons during a firefight another unit heads off in search of the target [Music] Osama bin Laden offers no resistance a few hours later a VTOL jet lands on the US aircraft carrier Carl Vinson stationed in the Indian Ocean bin Laden's body is on board the Americans have left his wives and children behind in Abbottabad handcuffed on the aircraft carrier bin Laden's body is prepared for burial according to Islamic ritual bin Laden's given a burial at sea this way his body will never be found I mean you know an Islamic custom you're supposed to bury within 24 hours and I mean they didn't want bin Laden to bury his burial place to be a place of pilgrimage and so you know that I think the sea burial was the least bad option they came up with at the same time the world at large learns of the terrorist leaders death tonight I can report to the American people and to the world the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden the leader of al-qaeda it was a big story but it wasn't you didn't have millions of people protesting and you didn't I think the reason for that is bin Laden did not die on the battlefields of Tora Bora in Afghanistan fighting the Americans he died in a suburban compound surrounded by his wives and kids he put up no resistance it was not a heroic and he he didn't go out with a bang he went out with a whimper the focus of global attention shifts overnight to the city of Abbottabad and the mysterious house in Bilal town neither spectators nor journalists are allowed to enter the compound itself though there are some exceptions I was amazed I must admit they surprised at the lack of security that there was because one would have been this high technology era one would have realized some highly technological equipment for security though there wasn't many none at all following the dramatic events as a former general of the Pakistani army shall cut Kadir is granted access to bin Laden's hideout one aspect draws his attention W running away or eating from the law what one begins to think of his that the first thing he must ensure is escape routes some escape route but the first thing that I was looking for that he should have some hidden escape routes and perhaps the attack was such a surprise that he wasn't able to get there but there were none there were none no CCTVs it's all outside which you could look at on the inside and say okay somebody's coming nothing like that at all very surprised Pakistani authorities did not want bin Laden's house in Abbottabad to become a place of pilgrimage so they have a demolished in 2012 yet the memory of bin Laden is by no means erased by demolition the garden estill Mia's in Latin is much more than a historic figure because he made a very decisive mark in shaping today's world using admittedly highly effective terrorist attacks that continued to define global politics to this day he managed to induce a superpower to counter react to fall into overreacted hiya Bush didn't I think his his legacy is still significant because he played an important role in legitimizing in some Islamic radical circles the taking of mass casualties of civilians in the West and of creating shock events made for media what we have now is a style of terrorism that that bin Laden helped to invent which is just the shocking mass casualty attack against soft targets his means were violent his strategies simple he was set on using terror to combat American influence in the Arab world the next step was to establish fundamentalist regimes in the Arab nations and ultimately unite them in a caliphate well the real thing is the ideology bin Laden was the person who explained that ideology very clearly to a lot of people around the world and unfortunately the ideology continues to live and I don't think it's gonna I don't think it's going to disappear [Music]

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I'm probably on some sort of list now after watching this.

👍︎︎ 5 👤︎︎ u/scottkelly 📅︎︎ Jul 03 2018 🗫︎ replies

Jesus. He really looks like John Turturro. That’s unfortunate.

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/feckincrass 📅︎︎ Jul 03 2018 🗫︎ replies

shoutout osama

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